Bean-harvester.



W. A. WYNANT.

BEAN HARVESTER.

APPLICATIUN FILED DEC.26, 1911.

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W. A. WYNANT.

BEAN HARVESTER.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 26. 1911.

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WILLIAM A. WYNANT, OI DEERTRAIL, COLORADO.

BEAN HARVESTEB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 13, 1918.

- Application filed December 26, 1917. Serial No. 208,951.

T 0 all whom, it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM A, WYNANT, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Deertrail, in the county of Arapahoe and State of Colorado, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Bean-Harvesters, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings. I

This invention relates to certain improvements in bean harvesters and it is an object of the invention to provide a novel and improved device of this general character including a digging or lifting implement discharging upon an elevator which in turn delivers upon a conveyor traveling transversely of the harvester and delivering at one side thereof.

Furthermore it is an object of the invention to provide a novel and improved deelevator and a conveyor together with means whereby the same are driven from a supporting axle. g

The invention consists in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts of my improved bean' harvester whereby certain important advantages are attained and the device rendered simpler, less expensive and otherwise more convenient and advantageous for use, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth. 1

The novel features of my invention will hereinafter be definitely claimed.

In order that my invention may be the better understood, I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure-1 is a view in top plan of a harvester constructed in accordance With an embodiment of my invention;

Fig. 2 is a view partly in side elevation and partly in vertical section of my improved harvester, as herein disclosed;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary sectional view taken through the upper end of the elevator and through the conveyor as herein employed; and

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view partly in rear elevation and partly in section, of the upper end portion of the elevator and the adjacent portion of the conveyor.

As disclosed in the accompanying draw in gs 1 denotes an axle having loosely mounted upon the opposite end portions support ing wheels 2. The wheels 2 are provided with the spring pressed pawls 3 normally engaging the ratchets 4: fixed to the axle 1 whereby said axle 1 will be caused to rotate in unison with and in the same general direction as the wheels 2 upon the forward advance of the machine. Arranged between the supporting wheels 2 and mounted for rocking movement in a vertical direction are the elevator frames F herein disclosed arcuate arms 6 having their forward or free end portions 7 in convergence and pivotally engaged as at 8 with an inwardly directed arm 9 carried by the transversely disposed vice of this general character including an beam 10 arranged in advance of the frames F. The'beam 10 is supported in a conventional manner by the caster wheels 11.

ably fixed to the shaft 15 is an upstanding lever 16 provided with the latch mechanism 17 ofa well-known type and which coacts with the upstanding rack 18 carried by one of the arms 6. The lever 16 is positioned in .such proximity to the seat structure S as to permit the same being readily manipulated.

by the occupant of the seat when it is desired to vertically adjust the lower end 'portion of the frame F. v

Positioned between the lower end portions F is a digging implement or lifting member 19. The, implement or member 19 is disposed on a predetermined incline and extends in advance of the side boards 5 and .of the side boards 5 of each of the frames ported by the upper or rear end portions of the side boards 5. p The sprockets 21 and 2e are in longitudinal alinement.

The shaft 2& extends outwardly beyond the frame F and the outer end portion of said shaft 24 is mountedin the upper end portions of the elongated parallel members 25 which have their lower end portions 'operatively engaged with the extended portion of the axle 1. The opposite or upper extremi ties of the members are suitably engaged with the conveyor frame C, which will be hereinafter more particularly referred to. The shaft 24 intermediate the members 25 has afliXed thereto a sprocket 26 around which is imposed the chain 2'6ivhich is also directed around a sprocket 27 fixed to the shaft 28 rotatably supported by the members 25 adjacent the lower ends thereof. The shaft 28 has also afiiXed thereto a gear 29 in mesh with the gear 30 fixed to the axle 1, whereby it will be perceived that upon rotation of the gear 30 proper movement will be imparted to the chains 22.

The pair of ch'aihs 22 coacting witheach of the frames F are connected by the Cress bars 31 arranged in predetermined spaced relation and upon which the vines er the like lifted by the digging implement or lifting member 19 are discharged. Vines or the like discharged upon the member 31 are carried upwardly of the frame F and during such travel the upper stretch of each of the chains 22 is caused to vibrate through the medium of a sprocket 32 whereby dirt 7 or other loose matter carried by the vines is roller 3 remote from the buncher or discharge member D is provided with an exteiide'dshaft '35 and to the eiiterided portion thereof is aflixed a gear 36 in mesh with the Copies of this patient may he detainee 61'' Fis eat out as indieated at 40 so that the cross membe 6r tars sl my readily dismarge iipoii the ceiiveyer 33.

From the foregoing description, it is thought to be ebvious that a bean harvester constructed in accordahe with my invention is particularly well adapted for use by reason of the convenience and facility with which it may be assembled aiid operated and it will also be ebvio'us' that my invention' is stisceptibl'e of some ehahge and inedificatien without departing from the piinci- 'ples and spirit theieof aiid for this reason I do not wish to be uhdeisteod as liiiiitiiig myself a; the pled e arran ement and formation of the several parts herein shown in carrying" out my invention in practice except as hereifiafter claimed.

I claim: L

A device of the eharaeter described comprising a wheel supported axle, a 'frttme mounted thereon, a ground engaging element Carried by one end of the frame, transversely tlispesed shafts cai ii'ed by the opposite ehd portiohs' of the frame; an eiidless nveyer dispasea steam sea shafts, are

of said Sliiift extending be' end the side t the frame; a member interposed between the eizteiided portion of the shaft and the axle, shaft supported by 'said member a-Iid dp eratively connected with the axle; aiid an operative coniieetien between the shaft of the membei :tiitl the eiitiided parade of the shaft of the frame. T

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflii itiy Sigiiatiiie iii the presence of two witnesses. WILLIAM A. WYNANT.

Witnesses 5 F. J. Smmstee, S. A'Wbdii 

